Promote Foreign Trade and Comprehensive Service Businesses

In the State Council policy briefing held recently, the person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce said that it will continue to promote the innovative development of market procurement trade and support foreign trade integrated services enterprises to play a leading role. In the current cross-border e-commerce new business model rapid development, traditional foreign trade agency enterprises can hardly meet the market demand, how to further play the role of foreign trade integrated service enterprises, become a worthy issue to explore.

The so-called foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises are the use of information technology means to integrate the traditional foreign trade supply chain resources, in line with the provisions of the premise of standardized operations, for the majority of small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises to provide information, logistics, customs clearance, foreign exchange, tax rebates, finance and other integrated whole process control of foreign trade comprehensive service platform. Such enterprises rely on Internet technology to provide services in all aspects of import and export, with the advantages of information technology and scale, can help small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises to develop international markets, reduce trade costs, alleviate financing difficulties, but also to promote the restructuring of China's foreign trade, cultivate new advantages in foreign trade exports to make an important contribution.

In recent years, commerce, customs, and other departments have issued policies to support the development of the foreign trade integrated services industry; local governments have also laid out foreign trade integrated services industry, promoting the relevant enterprises from scratch, from there to excellent. As most of the foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises from the traditional foreign trade agency enterprise transformation, subject to the level of their capacity, facing the advantages of not outstanding, the operation is not standardized, the risk is not controlled and other growing troubles, not really from the "small agent" into the development of foreign trade enterprises to drive the "big housekeeper ", small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises are still "thirsty". Urgent need to strengthen the cultivation, support, and guidance of foreign trade comprehensive services enterprises, so that they are more characteristic, more orderly, more dynamic, and high-quality development of the industry to drive foreign trade to maintain stability and improve quality.

First of all, to guide foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises to reduce homogeneity, towards the characteristics. Support enterprises to take the initiative to adjust the development model, to grasp the pulse of the local characteristic advantageous industries, from the common needs of the industry, the development of special service projects and service model, to improve the competitiveness of enterprises and customer stickiness while supporting the local characteristic advantageous industries group "out of the sea", development and growth.

Secondly, to standardize to empower the healthy development of foreign trade comprehensive services industry. To accelerate the development of a unified foreign trade integrated services industry standards, absorb the experience of the preparation and implementation of local standards, clear access conditions, business management, risk prevention, and control, and other aspects of the standardization of industry form and boundaries, to guide enterprises in a higher level of standardized operation.

Finally, to further stimulate the development of foreign trade comprehensive services industry vitality. Relevant departments and the pilot free trade zone should innovate export tax rebates, export credit insurance, cross-border settlement of RMB, and other regulatory models, combined with the foreign trade integrated services enterprise ladder cultivation mechanism, to carry out classification and grade policy support, so that foreign trade integrated services enterprises to enjoy more convenient, warm service, to create a good atmosphere for its development and growth. (Source: Economic Daily by: Pan Huan)